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News Archives - 1996

Leading international researcher in use of music in medicine to speak
at Augsburg College Music Medicine Symposium

Oct. 08, 1996

Dr. Ralph Spintge, the leading international researcher
in the use of music in medicine, and Dr. Frederick J. Schwartz, an Atlanta
anesthesiologist who introduced music to the operating room at Piedmont Hospital
in Atlanta more than 30 years ago, will headline a Music Medicine Symposium on
Sunday from 2-7 p.m. in Sateren Auditorium on the Augsburg College campus.

The symposium, dedicated to providing information about the therapeutic use of
music in health care settings, will include a panel discussion titled "Music in
Medicine--Future Aspects."

Panelists will include Spintge, Schwartz, local music therapists, music
therapy faculty members from Augsburg and the University of Minnesota and
Augsburg students majoring in music therapy.

Sunday's Music Medicine Symposium will be the first at Augsburg in seven
years, said Roberta Metzler, director of Augsburg's music therapy program.

"Since then, interest in alternative health care has exploded," Metzler said.
"People in the West are starting to recognize that music not only can help reduce
pain and be a relaxant, but it also can serve as a stimulant and energizer."
Spintge is director of the Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic and of the Music
Medicine Research Laboratory at Sportkrankenhause Hellersen, Leudenscheid,
Germany. He is also executive director of the International Society for Music in
Medicine and teaches at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

Spintge, who will speak from 4-5:30 p.m. Sunday, will be preceded by Schwartz,
whose introduction of music in surgery at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta led to a
hospital-wide central music system that calms patients' anxieties and reduces the
need for general anesthesia. Schwartz, who will speak from 2:30-3:45 p.m., has
also collaborated on a recording of female voice and womb sounds to soothe babies
(and adults, too).

All interested health care professionals are invited to attend
the symposium. The registration fee is $10. For more symposium information,
call Augsburg's music office at 330-1265. Sateren Auditorium is located in
Augsburg's Music Hall at 715-22nd Ave. S. in Minneapolis.

The symposium is cosponsored by The Schubert Club; Augsburg College Faculty Development; Schmitt
Music Company; Minnesota Music Therapy Association; Robert Kaplan Complementary
Medicine Fund and the University of Minnesota.

MUSIC MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. - Registration, Musical Beginnings

2:30 - 3:45 p.m. - Fred J. Schwartz, M.D., "Therapeutic use of music in the
milieu of anesthesia and consciousness"

3:45 - 4:00 p.m. - Break

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.- Dr. med. Ralph Spintge, "The functional and therapeutic effects of music from a medical and
neurophysiological standpoint"